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Eyewear

Eyeglasses, goggles or other objects worn over the eyes, usually to aid vision or for protective purposes.

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endo

Eyewear; Optometry

A prefix meaning within or inside.

with-the-rule astigmatism

Eyewear; Optometry

With the rule astigmatism has an axis of about 180 degrees (when Rx is written in minus cylinder form). "Against the rule" astigmatism has the axis at about 90 degrees. Both forms ...

PET scan

Health care; Optometry

A PET scan is a method of measuring the level of activity in a certain brain region during a mental task. If we wanted to measure what happens when someone speaks we would first ...

pons

Health care; Optometry

The pons is the structure in the brain which connects the medulla with the higher cortical areas of the brain. The higher cortical areas are the areas of the brain which form ...

posterior cerebral artery stroke

Health care; Optometry

A stroke in a specific blood vessel in the back of the head.

prosopagnosia

Health care; Optometry

Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognize faces.

rod photoreceptors

Health care; Optometry

Rods are receptor cells of the retina; sensitive to light of low intensity.

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